Interactive Teaching in the Primary School: Digging Deeper Into Meanings - Softcover

Moyles, Janet

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0335212131 ISBN 13: 9780335212132

Publisher: Open University Press, 2003

Synopsis

What is 'interactive teaching' in the context of primary classrooms? What is it that primary teachers and children actually do to interact effectively? Are there benefits in such interactions to both teaching and learning?

A team of tutors and teachers working in a research partnership set out to try to find the answers to these questions in the context of the Literacy Hour in Key Stages 1 and 2. This book represents the 'story' of this intriguing and exciting research and aims to develop for readers some of the practical and theoretical aspects which need to be considered if interactive teaching is to be understood and undertaken effectively in primary classrooms.

The project was unique in using its own interactive processes, called 'Reflective Dialogues,' to help teachers make sense of their own teaching by capturing and analyzing classroom sessions on video. Cameos of these incidents and reflections are interlaced throughout the book.

About this title

About the Author

Janet Moyles is Emeritus Professor of Education at Anglia Ruskin University and an early years/primary specialist and consultant, particularly in the areas of play, learning and practitioner research. Her books include Just Playing?, The Excellence of Play, Interactive Teaching in the Primary School; Images of Violence and Effective Leadership and Management in the Early Years.

Edition details

• Publisher: Open University Press
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0335212131
• ISBN 13: 9780335212132
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240